Devotional for friends // Devocional para as amigas

You know how nature teaches us some wonderful things. Let us look to the wolves. A pack of wolves. They protect each other. They have a leader, the alfa wolf. All of them respect it. They are united. They cannot break the pack. They would die for each other. They are loyal to one another. We should be like a pack of wolves. The church of Christ and the family. We should always stand for each other. But that is not what really happens, is it? In our current worldview, we are more like… humans, I couldn’t think about an animal in the Animal Kingdom that is more selfish, and individualistic than the man. The man thinks that he can thrive by himself, he thinks he doesn’t need anybody. He thinks he is self-sufficient. But God didn’t create the man to be by himself. God calls us to unity, to love one another. To protect one another. Where is the unity in the world?   ________________  Today, I was feeling rather unsettled. I first thought I should talk about unity. Ho

Some days ago, I've read this text and I thought about sharing it with you. I don't know who wrote it, but I got it from a devotional plan of YouVersion app. The name of the plan is God of Creation. Incredible Creator Have you ever been stopped in your tracks because you were in awe of the sky? Were you ever filled with amazement and wonder by how something could even exist? If you scroll Instagram and Facebook around sunset you will find so many pictures of the sunset because people find it undeniably beautiful. And as followers of Jesus Christ, we know we have a personal relationship with the Artist behind that beauty! God is the creator of the heavens and the earth. He is the most magnificent artist, and the sky is just one of His canvases where He displays His beauty. From sunup to sundown, we can see His creativity and greatness. In Scripture, we see God reveal His immensity by tilting up the heads His people to look up. Th

You must be tired of reading me about Joseph’s story. Yeah… but it is always very inspirational, at least for me. So, I got this verse this week: Then Joseph sent his brothers on their way, and as they were leaving, he said to them, “Do not quarrel on the way!” (Genesis 45:24) He said that because he knew well too much his brothers. He had no doubt about them. It was his family. No matter how long he had been away from them, he knew – siblings have always something to complain about, to quarrel about, to fight for. We are living weird times. We are spending too much time together with our families, right? You, not me. Because I, unfortunately, am too far to fight. And my husband and I, we talk, we don’t fight or quarrel. But, families.. usually do.            Why? I don’t know. Maybe because we love each other too much and we trust that (deep inside our minds) after all everything is going to be ok, we will keep being family and bearing wit

buy it here Father, Forgive them by Max Lucado “Of all scenes around the cross, this one angers me the most. What kind of people would mock a dying man? Who would be so base as to pour the salt of scorn upon open wounds? The words thrown that day were meant to wound. And there is nothing more painful than words meant to hurt. If you have suffered or are suffering because of someone else’s words, you’ll be glad to know that there is a balm for this laceration. Meditate on these words: “When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly” (1 Peter 2:23 NIV). Jesus did not retaliate or bite back. He did not say, ‘I’ll get you!’ ‘Come on up here and say that to my face!’ ‘Just wait until after the resurrection, buddy!’ No, these statements were not found on Christ’s lips. He simply left the judging to God. He did not tale on the t

Have you noticed how fast the year is passing? We are already in April, Holy week. Speaking of which, what do you know about Holy Week? Yeah yeah yeah… the television tells you that Easter is all about chocolate, bunnies, and almost nothing about the last week of Jesus as a human being. I am not going to talk about the Easter as the pagans; that Easter is all about fertility goddess. I am going to talk about today is why Jesus did what He did. Do you know? Do you really know the meaning of that? Does that mean anything to you at all? Let’s start with the ugly word: Sin. I read today in a book a text very interesting about the deceitfulness of Sin. What do I mean by that? People currently seem not to like the word sin. First, because of they judge themselves as “not that bad of a sinner”, or as “a good person who has never done anything wrong”, in their own standards, or the world’s standards. There is where the danger of this view li